Family Law

Obviously, bringing the legal relationship of marriage to an end is the chief function of the divorce proceeding. As well, the Divorce Act allows the court to deal with issues of spousal support, chil...

Divorce proceedings are started by filing a document called a Petition for Divorce or Application for Divorce, depending on where you live. The person asking for a divorce is called the Petitioner. Th...

It depends on where you live. Sometimes they are heard by Judges who hear other matters as well, such as Landlord and Tenant Act or commercial disputes. However, in Ontario and other jurisdictions, th...

There is no easy answer to this question. In 2004, lawyers across Canada charged as little as $600 and as much as $1200 in fees plus out-of-pocket disbursements for uncontested divorce, assuming that ...

In Canada there is only one ground for divorce: breakdown of the marriage. The most common way to establish a breakdown of the marriage is to prove that the spouses have lived apart (have been separat...

Most often the divorce itself is not contested. In those cases the party being served with the divorce documents may chose not to oppose the request for a divorce and not file any responding material....

Yes. The Divorce Act makes a distinction between the act of getting people freed from the legal relationship of marriage and finalizing the various other issues that may still exist between them, incl...

Yes, the Divorce Act deals with cases where the parties are before the court in a divorce proceeding and one of the spouses is refusing to remove a barrier to the remarriage of the other spouse in tha...

In Canada it is legal for one person to record conversations they are having with another person without that other person?s consent if you are using your own telephone line and not tampering with som...

Assuming that this was the first marriage for each of you, that you were and continue to live in Ontario, that there are no children or other issues that your spouse might contest, and your spouse is ...

You must either serve your husband with the Divorce Application so that he gets a copy personally, or get a judge to give you an order allowing you not to serve him or to serve him in some other way. ...

If you have not yet separated but the separation seems inevitable, take a few seconds to consider your options. Nearly all relationships end involuntarily either through death or separation. The end o...

A spouse or former spouse may be ordered to pay child support to the parent who has the custody or daily care and control of the child. An order for support can be made even in the absence of any actu...

It is usually based entirely on the gross annual income of the parent who pays it and the number of children in the care of the other parent, depending on the province where the children reside. Every...